The 23rd Busan International Film Festival was held from 3 October to 13 October 2018 at the Busan Cinema Center. A total of 324 films from 79 countries were screened at the festival, including 115 world premieres and 25 international premieres.
The DGK Award was also reinstated after it was boycotted by the Director's Guild of Korea in 2016 and 2017.
Program
Opening
Beautiful Days - Jéro YUN (Korea/France)
Gala Presentation
First Night Nerves - Stanley Kwan (Hong Kong, China/China) Killing - Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan) Ode to the Goose - Zhang Lu (Korea)
A Window on Asian Cinema
27 Steps of May - Ravi BHARWANI (Indonesia) 3 Faces - Jafar Panahi (Iran) A Family Tour - Ying Liang (Taiwan/Hong Kong, China/Singapore/Malaysia) Alpha, The Right to Kill - Brillante Mendoza (Philippines) Asako I & II - Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (Japan) Asandhimitta - Asoka Handagama (Sri Lanka) Ash Is Purest White - Jia Zhangke (China/France) Bhonsle - Devashish Makhija (India) Bulbul Can Sing - Rima Das (India) Capernaum - Nadine Labaki (Lebanon/United States) The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine - Takahisa Zeze (Japan) Cities of Last Things - Wi Ding HO (Taiwan/China/United States/France) Citizen Jake - Mike De Leon (Philippines) Come On Irene - Keisuke Yoshida (Japan) Complicity - CHIKAURA Kei (Japan/China) Dare to Stop Us - SHIRAISHI Kazuya (Japan) The Day I Lost My Shadow - Soudade KAADAN (Syria/Lebanon) Dear Ex - Mag HSU, HSU Chih Yen (Taiwan) Demons - Daniel HUI (Singapore) The Enigma of Arrival - SONG Wen (China) The Eternity Between Seconds - Alec FIGURACION (Philippines/Korea) Every Day a Good Day - Tatsushi Ōmori (Japan) Fly By Night - Zahir OMAR (Malaysia) Fortitude - Rashid MALIKOV (Uzbekistan) The Gentle Indifference of the World - Adilkhan YERZHANOV (Kazakhstan/France) The Island - Huang Bo (China) Jinpa - Pema Tseden (China) Lakbayan (Journey) - Brillante Mendoza, Lav Diaz, Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines) Magic Lantern - Amir Naderi (United States) The Man From the Sea - Kōji Fukada (Japan/Indonesia/France) Manta Ray - Phuttiphong AROONPHENG (Thailand/France/China) Manto - Nandita Das (India) Memories of My Body - Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) My Dear Friend - YANG Pingdao (China) Nakorn-Sawan - Puangsoi AKSORNSAWANG (Thailand/Germany) Namdev Bhau: In Search of Silence - Dar Gai (India/Ukraine) No Matter How Much My Mom Hates Me - MINORIKAWA Osamu (Japan) Our Departures - YOSHIDA Yasuhiro (Japan) The Rib - ZHANG Wei (China) Rona, Azim's Mother - Jamshid MAHMOUDI (Afghanistan/Iran) Round Figure - Hardik Mehta (India) Sanju - Rajkumar Hirani (India) The Scoundrels - Tzu-Hsuan HUNG (Taiwan) The Secret of a Leader - Farkhat SHARIPOV (Kazakhstan) Shadow - Zhang Yimou (China) Signal Rock - Chito S. Roño (Philippines) Sincerely Yours, Dhaka - Nuhash HUMAYUN, Syed Ahmed SHAWKI and 9 others (Bangladesh) Sly - Kamal Tabrizi (Iran) The Song of the Tree - Aibek DAIYRBEKOV (Kyrgyzstan/Russia) Ten Years Japan - HAYAKAWA Chie, KINOSHITA Yusuke, TSUNO Megumi, FUJIMURA Akiyo, ISHIKAWA Kei (Japan/Hong Kong, China) Ten Years Taiwan - Lekal Sumi Cilangasan, Rina B. TSOU, Po-Shun LU, Pei-Ju HSIEH, Kek Huat LAU (Taiwan/Hong Kong, China) Ten Years Thailand - Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Siriphol and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand/Hong Kong, China) They Sing up on the Hill - Bat-Amgalan LKHAGVAJAV, Ian ALLARDYCE (Mongolia/United Kingdom) The Third Wife - Ash Mayfair (Vietnam) Tumbbad - Rahi Anil BRAVE, Adesh PRASAD (India/Sweden) Vision - Naomi Kawase (Japan/France) Widow of Silence - Praveen Morchhale (India) With All My Hypothalamus - Dwein BALTAZAR (Philippines) Your Face - Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) Yours Truly - Sanjoy Nag (India)
New Currents
Aurora - Bekzat PIRMATOV (Kyrgyzstan) Clean up - KWON Man-ki (Korea) Gold Carrier - Touraj ASLANI (Iran) His Lost Name - HIROSE Nanako (Japan) House of Hummingbird - KIM Bora (Korea) House of My Fathers - Suba SIVAKUMARAN (Sri Lanka) SAVAGE - CUI Si Wei (China) Second Life - PARK Young-ju (Korea) The Red Phallus - Tashi GYELTSHEN (Bhutan/Germany/Nepal) Vanishing Days - ZHU Xin (China)